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Could a New Business Model Make Clinical Drug Trials More Accessible to Patients?
Episode 67

Could a New Business Model Make Clinical Drug Trials More Accessible to Patients?

Cold Call · HBR Presents / Brian Kenny

March 5, 201821m 17s

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Show Notes

Dr. Brian Alexander at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in Boston was in the process of launching a new type of clinical trial: an adaptive platform trial. Unlike the traditional randomized controlled trial, adaptive platform trials facilitate simultaneously studying multiple therapies for a given disease and have the potential to make clinical trials for new cancer drugs more efficient and accessible to patients. Developing questions around design, operations, and financing set the stage for this discussion with Harvard Business School professor Ariel Stern about her case: “Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future?”